China Activist Pledges to Attend Nobel Ceremony

By

Jeremy Page

Updated Nov. 7, 2010 7:50 p.m. ET

BEIJING—One of China's most prominent environmental activists has pledged to attend an award ceremony for Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize last month, despite Beijing's intensifying efforts to keep his supporters—and Western ambassadors—away from the event.

Dai Qing, a 69-year-old former journalist who lives in Beijing but is visiting Canada, published a statement online saying she would attend...